Job Advice Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection A Cover Letter is NOT Optional! On June 14, 2010, In Resume Writing by Debra Wheatman , By CareersDoneWrite.com 0 What’s the value of writing a cover letter?

Cover Letter

Job Advice Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

These days, job seekers don’t care. Avoiding the “unhappy at work&# syndrome can be solved in a few simple pro-active steps especially if you don’t get bogged down in the discomfort and fear of the minutae along the way. They want a job! Every person is unique, and every company and job is unique.

Resume

Job Advice Blog

JULY 26, 2010

Go ahead and add your own equally descriptive adjectives here, but don’t you dare use them in your CV.) The more heavy-handed you are in salting your application with them, the higher your ranking — i.e., likelihood of being plucked as a “best match&# out of the vast maw into which most online submissions are sucked, then sunk.

Resume

Job Advice Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection Are you getting paid as a 1099 Contractor? Most employees don’t realize the added expenses that a company has simply to pay an employee.

Payroll

Job Advice Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection While in Transition, Are You Keeping Pace with Technology? I don’t see this as an issue in LinkedIn, people tend to be more professional in their exchanges.

Social Media

Job Advice Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Get a Job On September 22, 2010, In Interview Skills by Alex Freund , By Alex Freund 0 Don’t misunderstand the title of this blog.

2009

Office Dynamics

JULY 29, 2013

Don''t know/no answer. Don''t know/no answer. If you want to keep your job search a secret, don''t mention it to anyone at work. You can further minimize the risk of being caught by ensuring your privacy settings are tight and using services that mask your identity when posting your resume online. Very uncomfortable.

Job Hunting

Job Advice Blog

APRIL 22, 2010

Referenced on your resume and your cover letter should be the best number(s) to reach you. You should be ready to talk; this means that your resume should be in front of you. Despite the limitations associated with a phone screen you can still make a powerful impression – powerful enough to get the real deal – an invite to the office.

Phones

Job Advice Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection paralyzed by the need to be perfect? Don’t give away your power. Put it out of your mind , and continue with the interview. Don’t find it and turn it off.

2009

Recruit CRM

JANUARY 20, 2022

Recruiter stores all the data in the system, which is then processed or accessed by their teammates if it’s an agency. You can store data in an ATS by parsing a resume or by typing all the details of a candidate one by one. Resume Parsers in ATS Almost every Applicant Tracking System nowadays have a resume parser in it.

Agencies

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

But there are some people who don’t need a full-time assistant; they need such services only when they’re on a certain project or burdened with too many short-term responsibilities. Since there is no chance of a face-to-face interview where you can convince people of your abilities, your resume should say it all.

Time Zones

The Leader Assistant Podcast

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

In this episode, Candice talks about her career journey from office junior to c-suite EA to launching an admin employment marketplace and specialist agency for high-net-worth individuals in Australia. SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to The Leader Assistant Podcast so you don’t miss new episodes! Martin Luther King Jr.

Agencies

Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 23, 2010

Whether they had or hadn`t I was never sure, but I know today that offices do fundraise for charities and workers are happy to participate. Whether they had or hadn`t I was never sure, but I know today that offices do fundraise for charities and workers are happy to participate. He raised over $1,000. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

Time Zones

Workplace Insight

JULY 16, 2024

The reality is: algorithms sift through resumes, analyse candidates’ online profiles, and even conduct initial interviews, all in search of the potential employee match. When writing about this subject, I couldn’t help but wonder how David Ogilvy would fare in today’s AI-based recruitment processes.

Resume

Workplace Insight

JUNE 25, 2024

Instead of paying a seasoned freelancer a lot of money, think about working with new graduates or students trying to compile their resumes. Neither do you have to spend a lot of money on a fancy agency nor should you be a design master. For those who are ready to put in the effort, the payback can be really substantial though.

Negotiating

Small Business CEO

MARCH 29, 2011

Instead of directly advertising and employment agencies, you could start a “Refer-a-Friend&# program wherein you can give small incentives to the employees once their referral passes the final stage of the recruitment process. Immediately sort the resumes of your candidates. Conduct a phone interview for the first screening.

Resume

The Leader Assistant Podcast

OCTOBER 22, 2023

SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to The Leader Assistant Podcast so you don’t miss new episodes! LEADER ASSISTANT LIVE EVENTS Check out our constantly updated schedule of events for admins and assistants at LeaderAssistantLive.com. You can find the show on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Google Podcasts , Pandora , and Stitcher. EA/AA team.

Management

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

For example, addressing the Minister of (insert govt agency here) is it Honourable so and so or Mr. or Ms. Taking stock We don't know what we don't know ► June (1) Playing nice in the sandbox ► May (2) Whose meeting is it anyway? Our role is important to the success of executives and managers everywhere.

Time Zones

Allwork

JULY 14, 2022

I’ve got so many questions buzzing through my mind right now, and I think the thing that seems to strike true is that it’s all about connections, isn’t it? On the one hand, it gives us a great sense of freedom and agency. That’s amazing. 00:04:42:29 – 00:04:48:00. Jo Meunier. Tim Leberecht. It really is.

AT&T

Allwork

JUNE 5, 2023

They weren’t real worker sensitive in that environment, and we’ve had several major shifts as they come along. I don’t care. So when you say there’s a revolution, does everybody have to quit from those companies and say, no, my revolution is to stand up and say, I won’t take it anymore and leave.

AT&T

Allwork

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

With the aid of digital avatars and virtual tours, professionals can interact, collaborate, and create work in ways that weren’t possible with traditional setups. I don’t want to be a cartoon character, but I do want to live and work in an immersive world. Work podcast. It’s really great to have you here today.

AT&T

Ideas.Ted

JULY 8, 2021

Rich Leigh, whose Gloucester firm Radioactive PR moved to a four-day week in 2019, told me, “I can’t move for great resumes from great people” who were wanting to escape London but remain in the industry. My book about the move towards four-day workweek, Shorter , was published in the US in early March 2020.

Carbon Footprint

Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

If you’re don’t have a website, what are you waiting for? Just don’t lose site of the fact that you earn money as a freelancer and not as a blogger. If you can’t write helpful advice a few times a month about the problem you aim to solve as a freelancer, you might just be in the wrong business.

2010

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

I found every single one of my jobs through a temping agency or by referral. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. Any recruiter who sees your resume will silently wonder the following questions. If the fit isn’t close enough, they toss or file your resume. It’s great to be here!

Interviewing

Success

MARCH 16, 2025

In addition to submitting a resume and cover letter, many companies now ask applicants to send in video submissions. Companies are] trying to read personalities over a video, so that they don’t have to waste time trying to figure that out in the actual interview, he explains. It felt really odd.

Cover Letter

Success

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Robert Pirosh was a well-to-do copywriter in a New York-based advertising agency when he decided to reinvent his career and become a screenwriter. And since many of your competitors will have more experience in your target industry, job applications and resumes alone wont cut it. The year was 1934.

Resume